Hi

I used Win32::Sound::Play('SystemExit');
and were very pleased with the result until I noticed my code freezes until the sound ends.
So I tried to make the sound run in the background,
while letting my code keep running without waiting for the sound to end.
The "how to" description talks about "flags".
I'm not sure if there is a problem with the module,
or if I just can't figure out what "flags" means.

These are (some of) the forms I tried to do this:
(individually tried of course) 
Win32::Sound::Play('SystemExit',('SND_ASYNC'));
Win32::Sound::Play('SystemExit',(SND_ASYNC));
Win32::Sound::Play('SystemExit',['SND_ASYNC']);
Win32::Sound::Play('SystemExit',[SND_ASYNC]);
Win32::Sound::Play('SystemExit',SND_ASYNC);
Win32::Sound::Play('SystemExit',-SND_ASYNC);
Win32::Sound::Play('SystemExit',- SND_ASYNC);
Win32::Sound::Play('SystemExit',[-SND_ASYNC]);
Win32::Sound::Play('SystemExit',[- SND_ASYNC]);
-SND_ASYNC Win32::Sound::Play('SystemExit');
- SND_ASYNC Win32::Sound::Play('SystemExit');
-SND_ASYNC(Win32::Sound::Play('SystemExit'));
- SND_ASYNC(Win32::Sound::Play('SystemExit'));
Win32::Sound::Play('SystemExit',[SND_ASYNC=>1]);
Win32::Sound::Play('SystemExit',[1]);
Win32::Sound::Play('SystemExit',[$SND_ASYNC]);
Win32::Sound::Play('SystemExit',($SND_ASYNC));
Win32::Sound::Play('SystemExit',$SND_ASYNC);
SND_ASYNC{Win32::Sound::Play('SystemExit');}
SND_ASYNC{Win32::Sound::Play('SystemExit');};

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As you can guess, none did the trick.
Just look at all these annoying combinations
(it's even more painful to look at them all stacked up like that)

please help :-[

Update: Resolved thx :-)

In reply to Win32::Sound module problem by palkia

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